"Hi Amy. If your main purpose for Facebook is "connect with family and join interest groups," then departing Facebook is going to be difficult for you. Most likely your friends and family are going to remain on Facebook, even with the coming changes. My experience has been that it is almost impossible to draw enough of them to another network to make it worthwhile. Like it or not, Facebook has become the defacto personal social network, and is likely to remain so for some time to come. On the other hand, if you're looking for special interest groups, you can probably find those on most any thriving social network. You just have to be willing to make new connections." - Mark Traphagen